“We are doing so poorly I thought maybe I would announce on this show that I’m running for president,” John McCain, celebrating his 71st birthday (Wednesday) on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” Tuesday. Meanwhile, McCain this week became the first 2008 presidential hopeful to be declared eligible by the Federal Election Commission to receive federal matching funds, perhaps as much as $21 million to begin flowing in January.
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Oh it seems so long ago that I saw McCain as the last great hope, I recognize the importance of the best outcome to Iraq as far as this country’s future is concern. But he went so wrong in he is supporting an outcome that is not realistic. the simple answer is that because of the region dynamics and the geometrically oppose view of the world. The people of Iraq will not allow an American style democracy to form on its own and that is what is needed to have the vision that he seeks. Or as I was told once while I lived in Oklahoma, “them’s Yankee…. They don’t think like we do!”.
Supporting the troops is not always supporting a misguided mission or illiterate judgment. McCain hooked his horse to the wrong wagon, i.e. thinking a all out support of the military action is the way to go for a political outcome. That works if the goal is to install a military dictatorship but not a democracy.
McCain served the country well and should be commended for it. But it looks like in latter years that, frankly, the man’s elevator don’t quite go to the top floor anymore. When he talks he looks like he is on dope. Maybe he has had his nose up Bush’s ass too long!
I’m like you, dog. I thought (seems not that long ago) he was THE ONE. He lost me at The Patriot Act and seems he got worse after that poor decision to buckle under the pressure of bushco (once again!).
So $21 million of federal funds will go to his failed bid? The black hole of fiscal responsibility opens wider! I am a proud liberal AND much more fiscally conservative than what we have in office now.
CHANGE! We need many changes!
Never had any interest in McCain. He has his moments of brilliance, but like the Weather Channel on Cox Cable, I only view it when there something bad happening outside.
What a shame that 21 million dollars of taxpayer money is going to be wasted on McCain running for president.’
No wonder our country is in trouble.
McCain lost me when he started cozying up to Bush and cohorts. But he really lost me when he started getting cozy with the Religious Right’s Falwell and Pat Robertson. These two men were the ones that spread lies about McCain during the 2000 campaign against Geroge W. Bush.
Since that time, I’ve watch McCain go from an independent to the little lapdog of the Bush Administration and he was falling at the feet of two phoney television evangelists.
I still admire McCain for what he went through in Vietnam. There was a time when I thought he could unite this country, and I would have voted for him in the 2000 election. But now, his time has passed. He’s too old and too out of step to ever be president.
McCain is a joke. 21 million won’t save his clown campaign.
Bush declared himself to be the uniter but we saw exactly what he did when he got in, didn’t we?
I’m afraid the 2-party system we have today will never be able to produce someone who can unite the country. Maybe it is time for a third party? Not for this election but maybe in the next cycle?
McCain is running on a campaign of showing us how bad his judgment stacks up against the real world.
And that’s not exactly a “winning strategy.”
And his judgment doesn’t seem to reflect that he even knows that.
If you feel the urge to support him, check with your doctor first.
Put a fork in him – he’s done.
As with Dole I honor and respect McCain for his service. However as a politician he is a has-been. His brown-nosing with Bush did him in.
I’m so sad that he seemed to loose his soul and sell out. I thought he’d be the one, also. I’ve always admired him, but he is as off base as the rest of the administration now. What a shame.
LOL I once said that you know your music career is over when your CD ends up a 99 cents choice at Wal-Mart. Senator McCain throw in the towel when in a Red State you get only 11 comments about you on a political blog! Heeeeeee
McCain should go hunting with Cheney. I don’t wish McCain any harm, and would tell his so when he come back alone.
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It is just another Republican scandal that loser McCain intends to take millions of dollars of federal money to prop up a failed campaign.
Conservatives? What a sad joke!